It's time for another round of Questions and Answers. Our latest Q&A
session is here, directly from Hasbro...
Don't
forget, you can submit
questions in our forums and we'll try to get as many as possible submitted to
Hasbro. We can send only three questions per week, so make sure they are good ones! Now,
on to this weeks Questions and Answers directly from Hasbro.
Q.
For the SW 30 year Anniversary, any thoughts of making more cut-scene figures like the Biggs, such as Fixer, Cammie or Tank? What about small scale vehicles to go along with these, such as Fixer's or the Lars landspeeder?
A. There won't be any more cut scene figures in the 30th line, but we are considering these for future (post-30th) possibilities and weighing them against other EU-type concepts we see as important in doing. There is a
probably a good chance (it may take a few years though) that all of the characters you mentioned will make it to the shelves. However, it's unlikely that we'll ever do the Lars landspeeder given the complexity and tooling
required for vehicles and the relatively unknown status of that one compared with other vehicle possibilities.
Q. The decision to push back all TFU product (with EXCEPTION to the new Lightsaber with spring-activated hilt guards) begs the following: Does this mean new lightsabers from new characters? Such as the Zabrak brandishing twin green lightsabers with tonfa shaped hilts? Or those saber-tipped-staffs wielded by those cool black Shadow Guards (whose unique design we haven't seen since Walmart's blink of the eye (re)sell-out of Maul's double-blade)? It's said TFU will be treated like the next chapter. Can we anticipate this will come complete with new sabers?
A. We are going to be doing the one new saber to start with and then see where the others take us. Because of the different "footprint" of some of the other sabers it's much more challenging to bring those to retail (for instance, the Wal-Mart exclusive Darth Maul lightsaber re-issue had to be merchandised out of the normal planogram last Fall). So, for the rest of them we're adopting a wait-and-see attitude and if the demand is there, we can go after it.
Q. When can we expect to see this years UGH figures arriving in stores? Last years UGH figures arrived several months before their projected street date, can we expect the same with this years?
A. We are projecting July "on shelf" this year for the UGHs. We don't think it will be earlier, but that could change depending on the time it takes to build up stock for that wave (Wave 4) and deliver it to retail.
Check back in a few weeks and we'll post
the next round of Questions (and answers) as soon as Hasbro offers them.
